Long time since I got me the last guitar I owned, a Skervesen Raptor 8. Now, three years later I'm a different person as many might be after the pandemics, being a father, and a lot of other circumstances. I still have a band where I play my 8 string but I'm a bit tired of everything and I didn't own a proper sixer, I always wanted to have a Prestige and my dislike for floating bridges and complications in tuning and intonation is growing non-stop, so this RG652 ticked all the boxes save one... I would have LOVED this same guitar with 26,5 scale. Aaaand when the guitar came to my hands I realized it was not "Swamp Ash" but "plain Ash" and that adds a lot of weight to it I wasn't expecting. Anyway, the guitar is very well done, beautiful (I expected a more "figured" birdseye maple fretboard as my skervesen is full of those eyes, and there are only a few in the ibanez but whatever), comfy and the pickups, which I though might be a problem at the begininng, I'm also enjoying. That popular combo Air Norton - Tone Zone makes the guitar a very versatile instrument, which is what I was looking for, something with a presence not overwhelmingly modern or tight or anything that is so sought after these days. Anyways, I plan to tune it down to drop C in the future and I've read I may not like the tone in that case, we'll see, but for the standard tuning, the pickups are tight enough and veeery muscial sounding, as Dimarzio use to be. No more bullshit, enter the pictures:
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